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in my case the new york "new york times." i think we'll get through. i think that will be a summed it up one. i think we have -- will have one of the ploast -- most greatest experience. i need to get used to just doing the work at 6:00. ed rosenthal first editor in the new york. controversial man. i was a correspondent in africa. and he was visiting with a former publisher. he kind of cut me nauf mid sentence. he said, you know, john, what i've discovered in 408, 50 years this business when things don't get done, they don't get done because they don't get done. in other words, you excuse anything. i can excuse why i have not written a book. the truth of the matter is that writing a book is an act of courage. i have to have the dourge do it. >> last question. of all the assignments you've got what one was the most exhilarating? >> exhilarating? i think the war. i think the wars -- >> these wars right now. >> these wars because they pose the essential questions -- con sexual -- consensual interest because they bore so heavily on the united states and my
in my case the new york "new york times." i think we'll get through. i think that will be a summed it up one. i think we have -- will have one of the ploast -- most greatest experience. i need to get used to just doing the work at 6:00. ed rosenthal first editor in the new york. controversial man. i was a correspondent in africa. and he was visiting with a former publisher. he kind of cut me nauf mid sentence. he said, you know, john, what i've discovered in 408, 50 years this...
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i want to salute my two colleagues from new york. kirsten gillibrand sits next to me on the floor of the united states senate. if she grabs me one more time -- she was incredibly driven. if you have to be in a legislative or other battle, you cannot have a more skillful, fall whole intellect at work than chuck schumer. these two individuals made an enormous -- did an enormous job. i want to remember the person for whom this bill is made. he was a new york city police officer. he spent 450 hours at the world trade center site. he felt it was his duty. when he drove away that day, he told his wife and kids and he needed to respond. his only protection was a simple paper mask. he did not think about himself nor did he think about the consequences for his family. he thought about his duty, his honor, and his country. we lost him two years ago, but for all of those who are still alive we honor them today by the passage of this bill. that passage says that we are truly a grateful nation. thank you very much. [applause] >> i want to also re
i want to salute my two colleagues from new york. kirsten gillibrand sits next to me on the floor of the united states senate. if she grabs me one more time -- she was incredibly driven. if you have to be in a legislative or other battle, you cannot have a more skillful, fall whole intellect at work than chuck schumer. these two individuals made an enormous -- did an enormous job. i want to remember the person for whom this bill is made. he was a new york city police officer. he spent 450 hours...
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they headed for chicago, detroit, new york, and los angeles but the. in the 21st century, it is shorter but may take longer. this i know. when the check map quest for directions from chronic poverty to the mainstream, it is clear that regardless of your station in life and where you are headed, all roads go through education. thank you very much. [applause] >> do we have any questions? do not be shy. i have some questions preve. >> [inaudible] barack obama ended a contract between [inaudible] there are political -- the only thing that is promoted is the actual vote. they are holding political leaders accountable. people want president obama to promote specific policies started to ward -- toward their communities. >> i certainly believe the agenda -- if he can restart this economy that helps the african- american community. it will directly impact and benefits the large number of black kids in schools. extending health care to those who are not insured directly benefits are folks. i think the key for african- americans is to understand how you benefit,
they headed for chicago, detroit, new york, and los angeles but the. in the 21st century, it is shorter but may take longer. this i know. when the check map quest for directions from chronic poverty to the mainstream, it is clear that regardless of your station in life and where you are headed, all roads go through education. thank you very much. [applause] >> do we have any questions? do not be shy. i have some questions preve. >> [inaudible] barack obama ended a contract between...
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plan for new york city. they shot down -- they shut down the ridge assisting -- the redistricting process. they challenged the commission that i have now been appointed to, but then they challenge the commission, the leadership of the state legislature, and they forced the redrawing of additional congressional districts. had those groups not work together, we might have had black legislators fighting hispanic legislators over this piece of territory or that. they would not have achieved a positive result. >> it is important to remember that there is no cookie cutter approach to the redistricting. each state does it differently. in some states, the general assembly does it. in some states, there are commission cetera appointed to coalition building has to be external and internal. he has talked about the external piece. let me talk about the internal peace and break it down regionally. with all due respect to new york, is a little bit different down south. most southern legislators for the process is done int
plan for new york city. they shot down -- they shut down the ridge assisting -- the redistricting process. they challenged the commission that i have now been appointed to, but then they challenge the commission, the leadership of the state legislature, and they forced the redrawing of additional congressional districts. had those groups not work together, we might have had black legislators fighting hispanic legislators over this piece of territory or that. they would not have achieved a...
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in new york. but they are very significant debates. but during that entire time, i never heard anyone question his integrity or ever seen charlie rangel treat anyone with disrespect, which is very unusual for somebody in his high position as many of us know, whether it be flight attendants, cab drivers, staff members or the guy on the street corner on 125th street. my colleagues, i know we can get caught up in media attacks and political storms. but i am imploring you today to pause for a moment and step back, to reflect upon not just the lifetime of charlie rangel, but more importantly, the 220-year history of tradition and precedent of this body. let us apply the same standard of justice to charlie rangel that's been applied to everybody else and which all of us would want to apply to ourselves. i respectfully urge a vote against censure and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: who yields time? mr. scott: i yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. woolsey, 1 1/2 minute
in new york. but they are very significant debates. but during that entire time, i never heard anyone question his integrity or ever seen charlie rangel treat anyone with disrespect, which is very unusual for somebody in his high position as many of us know, whether it be flight attendants, cab drivers, staff members or the guy on the street corner on 125th street. my colleagues, i know we can get caught up in media attacks and political storms. but i am imploring you today to pause for a...
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"the new york times" runabout it. -- "the new york times" wrote about it. when fans and see me, they do not say, hey, you on tv. they say, "and remember that day." >> i was a college freshman and wanted toctly onwhat i do. i was good to be a historian. i knew freshman week that i was good to go to college to do that and that i was going to go into private school. and i got sidetracked into this journalism's thing and told fellow love with it. given a decision between writing a very rough history and writing history where you could ask follow-up questions, i would rather interview the people i was writing about. but i think it was a deeper thing than that. a little bit of a personal background, i am a first- generation american. my father was a jewish refugee from germany. as i thought about it over the years, the choice of career was once so coincidental. in my heart, i have always believed that, if people only knew the truth, if people had put in their hands the actual facts, the important facts, the things that were being hit in, there would have been a d
"the new york times" runabout it. -- "the new york times" wrote about it. when fans and see me, they do not say, hey, you on tv. they say, "and remember that day." >> i was a college freshman and wanted toctly onwhat i do. i was good to be a historian. i knew freshman week that i was good to go to college to do that and that i was going to go into private school. and i got sidetracked into this journalism's thing and told fellow love with it. given a decision...
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i read about him in the new york times. because additional source cited at the party rallies is the one they weighed on the mall when they marched at tea party rallies. his views are the most consistent with the tea party leadership.; stella says most federal regulatory systems are unconstitutional -- scalia says most federal regulatory systems are unconstitutional. he argues that the 16th and 17th amendments should be repealed. he says that social security is a form of unconstitutional wealth redistribution. the founders only authorized the government to protect equal rights. there is substantively a great overlap between much of this khalil's decisions and the decision that professor codevilla get endorses. it would lead to a radical increase in judicial activism, striking down most of the regulatory state. it is something no one on the court, except for justice thomas, what to entertain. the tea party is at odds with the other two conservative visions. the first this the second legal movement -- libertarianism. its leade
i read about him in the new york times. because additional source cited at the party rallies is the one they weighed on the mall when they marched at tea party rallies. his views are the most consistent with the tea party leadership.; stella says most federal regulatory systems are unconstitutional -- scalia says most federal regulatory systems are unconstitutional. he argues that the 16th and 17th amendments should be repealed. he says that social security is a form of unconstitutional wealth...
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let me turn to my fellow representative from the great state of new york, mr. tonka. mr. tonko: thank you, representative garamendi. from your district in california, representative garamendi, to representative shea-porter's district in new hampshire, to my district in upstate new york, the middle income community, the working families are all resonating with their message, that it's their turn. we borrowed, as was indicated by ms. shea-porter, in the decade that preceded this administration from china to pay not only for tax cuts but for two wars and for medicare part d, for a doughnut hole that now is driving seniors to the brink of poverty. where was the fairness in all of that? because their bearing of the burden is far greater than a percentage of their income household-wise than the upper income strata. so the consequences here are born -- borne unfairly. so i think that what you've described here in the contrast is an opportunity to start anew, with a new focus where children and students, married couples, seniors, working families all are given highest priority. w
let me turn to my fellow representative from the great state of new york, mr. tonka. mr. tonko: thank you, representative garamendi. from your district in california, representative garamendi, to representative shea-porter's district in new hampshire, to my district in upstate new york, the middle income community, the working families are all resonating with their message, that it's their turn. we borrowed, as was indicated by ms. shea-porter, in the decade that preceded this administration...
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did that mean he was not committed to the new york jets? there are things wdo not do in competition. it does not help the competitn. it does not make you stronger. it destroys the possibility of politics altogether. the analogy is, there's a difference between playing as well as you can when you're on the field and tripping the players. host: james on the phone from louisiana. caller: good morning. can we please stop calling mr. frum a conservative? a true conservative would never advise the republicans to support the democratic health care bill. after november 2, it does not look like the american people like it so much. take a look at all the waivers the administration has granted. the pre-existing conditions fiasco where 8000 people when they thought it was going to be 135,000 people signing up -- and now they sneak this end-of-life counseling into the bill in the dark of the night. do you still think republicans should support ts? do you really consider yourself a conservative with these types of policy decisions? guest: i'm sorry. i ac
did that mean he was not committed to the new york jets? there are things wdo not do in competition. it does not help the competitn. it does not make you stronger. it destroys the possibility of politics altogether. the analogy is, there's a difference between playing as well as you can when you're on the field and tripping the players. host: james on the phone from louisiana. caller: good morning. can we please stop calling mr. frum a conservative? a true conservative would never advise the...
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sinators from new york will hav. all week to consider their votet at some time but that is when ty happen fairly quickly.. >> mr. president?ork >> republican leader. >> let me respond very briefly to the majority leader. i do want to commend the members of the appropriations committee for all the work they've done, particularly republican membersg of the appropriations committee. who did spend an enormous amounn of time crafting an bd developig the 12 different appropriation bills that we should have been acting on all year long. a this is the first time in modere history, the first time in. modern history that not a singlo appropriations bill went across the floor of the senate, not fue one.di do i d committee members on a bipartisan basis did indeed do their job. the problem is the senator didn't do its job and so what we ended up with, mr. president, was this, this almost 2,000 page omnibus appropriations bill which weer only got was it is yesterday? yesterday.s and so the point here is the work that the appropria
sinators from new york will hav. all week to consider their votet at some time but that is when ty happen fairly quickly.. >> mr. president?ork >> republican leader. >> let me respond very briefly to the majority leader. i do want to commend the members of the appropriations committee for all the work they've done, particularly republican membersg of the appropriations committee. who did spend an enormous amounn of time crafting an bd developig the 12 different appropriation...
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i think what happens in new york, what happens in colorado will then set a new framework a new ground-level of where we are. i think that scott's group will continue to try and get more and more states to join the streamlined sales tax agreement. we will probably fight the mainstream fairness act in congress saying that they really have the streamlined. i like the phrase that does not do anything here. hopefully it's streamlined in name only and goes into more streamlining. i think that eventually as remote sales become larger and larger, it may well be that states will start to streamline more. >> host: final word. >> states won't have any choice. they'll do whatever they have to do. you'll start seeing amazon type stuff everywhere because the internet is truly amazing and it's revolutionized this country and you can't get the bill's tax for the sales tax will die. >> host: this is "the communicators." .peterson with the streamlined sales tax government. jerry cerasale, direct marketing association and grant gross with the idg new service which serves "pcworld," "infoworld" and "network wo
i think what happens in new york, what happens in colorado will then set a new framework a new ground-level of where we are. i think that scott's group will continue to try and get more and more states to join the streamlined sales tax agreement. we will probably fight the mainstream fairness act in congress saying that they really have the streamlined. i like the phrase that does not do anything here. hopefully it's streamlined in name only and goes into more streamlining. i think that...
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i mentioned new york. i could mention many others. i could mention northern illinois. i could mention connecticut. i could mention other states in the pacific northwest. i would mention southern california. i would mention ohio. i could mention many of the communities that you come from, but i think you get the drift of what i am saying which is we face an ever-evolving threat. we don't know where all the people are. we don't know who all the people are. the tactics being used are much more difficult to intercept and our work together therefore has to be more closely knit with each other. every single one of us has to view ourselves as a full partner in the homeland security effort, so the homeland security architecture i am talking about, and the homeland architecture we are building is one where we weave together our information sharing networks, our counterterrorism efforts, and our community policing strategies in a way that has never been done before. i'm talking about leveraging the experience of local police in se nevada or florida who might spot a potential tre
i mentioned new york. i could mention many others. i could mention northern illinois. i could mention connecticut. i could mention other states in the pacific northwest. i would mention southern california. i would mention ohio. i could mention many of the communities that you come from, but i think you get the drift of what i am saying which is we face an ever-evolving threat. we don't know where all the people are. we don't know who all the people are. the tactics being used are much more...
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camp: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. >> i'm amazed how my friends across the aisle have found religion when it comes to fiscal issues. mr. lee: where were they with the $1.2 trillion health care bill they all promoted. where were they when the speaker chose not to enact a budget resolution this year, first time in 36 years, and now they're preaching fiscal responsible. -- responsibility. when we're out promoting a bill that's not cutting taxes, it's helping to ensure every american citizen who pays taxes won't be seeing an increase this year. it is truly, truly amazing. simply put, the bill before us today will allow taxpayers to keep more of what they earn and will allow small businesses the engines of our economy to invest in themselves and invest in jobs. this bill will provide much-needed certainty that businesses have been screaming for and they're looking to invest in themselves and truly what they want to do is hire more workers, tell us what the rules are
camp: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. >> i'm amazed how my friends across the aisle have found religion when it comes to fiscal issues. mr. lee: where were they with the $1.2 trillion health care bill they all promoted. where were they when the speaker chose not to enact a budget resolution this year, first time in 36 years, and now they're preaching fiscal responsible. -- responsibility. when we're out...
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"new york times" arlington. guantanamo bay, -- "new york times" article. guantanamo bay, cuba, the detainees charged with planning the september 11 attacks said they wanted to confess in full a move that seemed to challenge the government to put them to death at the start of what had been listed as routine proceedings monday, the judge said he received a written statement from the five men, dated november 4, saying they planned to stop filing legal motions and, quote, to announce our confessions to plea in full, unquote. speaking what has become a familiar high-pitched tone in the cavernous courtroom here, the most prominent of the five said, we don't want to waste our time with motions. that was what they said. around this administration, unfortunately, came in after -- just a month after this, because this is december 8, 2008. 2008. these guys were ready to plead guilty. they were ready to be put to death. they had already proclaimed as cleed sheik muhammad did, they were going to plead guilty and take their punishment. oh, no, the strong leaders in this
"new york times" arlington. guantanamo bay, -- "new york times" article. guantanamo bay, cuba, the detainees charged with planning the september 11 attacks said they wanted to confess in full a move that seemed to challenge the government to put them to death at the start of what had been listed as routine proceedings monday, the judge said he received a written statement from the five men, dated november 4, saying they planned to stop filing legal motions and, quote, to...
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new york is purple lifecare because we actually had two seats open. both senator gillibrand and senator schumer were up. so we had some, you know, some big ones out there. colorado is a big win. again, with some tough losses in a sense. illinois was a tough loss. wisconsin was a top five. let go when a two-term senator for someone who sat on the campaign trail that he didn't know enough about some of the issues to speak about them. so sometimes so much for experience. it was a very volatile electorate. were talking about a little bit more here. briefly in the house, i didn't want to go to "the new york times" or "the wall street journal" or the "washington post" who have a big media design team and put their little craft together. but on the house side, where we saw the biggest volatility, we went about 38% of the races you're engaged in. fifty if or governors, 50% for state. again, taking the whole state and on the district level, where we know districts had been cut sometimes to protect incumbents, sometimes to create a swing district. we saw claudi
new york is purple lifecare because we actually had two seats open. both senator gillibrand and senator schumer were up. so we had some, you know, some big ones out there. colorado is a big win. again, with some tough losses in a sense. illinois was a tough loss. wisconsin was a top five. let go when a two-term senator for someone who sat on the campaign trail that he didn't know enough about some of the issues to speak about them. so sometimes so much for experience. it was a very volatile...
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eleven weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list as number one. john holloman and mark halpert, game change, seven weeks. michael lewis, big six weeks. george w. bush, number one for five weeks. i'm laura bush, number one for four weeks. she went on a pretty extensive book tour as well, didn't she? >> guest: she did. she did. her book has been out since may i believe. and bush's book has only been out since the second week of november i believe. so keep in mind some of these books have and how that went to go. "the immortal life of henrietta lacks" has been out for a few weeks. >> host: before we get the calls, let's talk about game change by john heilman and mark halpert. >> guest: i'm sorry, i'm not that familiar with that boat. >> host: one of the political bios of barack obama in the campaign of she doesn't need. another one that came out about barack obama, and other biography was david remnick scum of the life and rise of rock obama. this also came out in 2010. greenwich, connecticut. good evening, u.n. put tv with jenn risko of self-awarene
eleven weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list as number one. john holloman and mark halpert, game change, seven weeks. michael lewis, big six weeks. george w. bush, number one for five weeks. i'm laura bush, number one for four weeks. she went on a pretty extensive book tour as well, didn't she? >> guest: she did. she did. her book has been out since may i believe. and bush's book has only been out since the second week of november i believe. so keep in mind some of these...
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[applause] >> well, as a senator from new york, i welcome you to our great city, our great university. i welcome all of the students. i cannot thank you enough for the efforts you are undertaking with this conference. it could not come any more important time in our nation's history, and at a time of extraordinary crisis. not only do we have an unemployment rate touching 10%, we have a massive deficit, a two wars, on national security crisis at every border. it is a huge time of enormous discordance in washington as well. we have seen time and time again that people on both sides are measuring success by the amount of bills they block as opposed to the amount of solutions they find it. we should be measuring our success on how many jobs we are creating and how many problems we are addressing. and it is really a time when we need leaders, leaders from the private sector such as yourself to have this call to action, to demand by partisanship, a coming together and working on solutions and not the partisan bickering that has become a staple of every political talk show on every evening n
[applause] >> well, as a senator from new york, i welcome you to our great city, our great university. i welcome all of the students. i cannot thank you enough for the efforts you are undertaking with this conference. it could not come any more important time in our nation's history, and at a time of extraordinary crisis. not only do we have an unemployment rate touching 10%, we have a massive deficit, a two wars, on national security crisis at every border. it is a huge time of enormous...
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but i realize that we're not new york. we're connecticut, california. maybe if you make 300 or mak$300 $400,000 an am in some of thesee yourself very wealthy are rich.w i think i louisiana standards would be. but this is a i b big nation, si possibly be here. i'm not talking about the wealthy being 40,500,000. california. for what we're talking about in this tax bill is firing $50 billion to give tax breaks to families earning over asaidhr million. put so was the senator from vermont0 said, whether you put your mark at 250,000 or 100,000 oror $0,00 500,000, we can disagree aboutat how about the middle classes. but is there anyone -- anyone, s anyone in this chamber on any side of the idle for many stater they believe seriously, given what the senator from vermontt just outlined, which is really not debatable. sidof i are not just from one side of the aisle or another, but we should actually next week provide $50 billion in extended benefits for the families inlli? america who are making more than a million dollars a year.o great, when the needs of the m
but i realize that we're not new york. we're connecticut, california. maybe if you make 300 or mak$300 $400,000 an am in some of thesee yourself very wealthy are rich.w i think i louisiana standards would be. but this is a i b big nation, si possibly be here. i'm not talking about the wealthy being 40,500,000. california. for what we're talking about in this tax bill is firing $50 billion to give tax breaks to families earning over asaidhr million. put so was the senator from vermont0 said,...
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i have one friend who is a famous novelist in new york. because he is famously can't really is facebook the way it is supposed to be used because he is always being bugged because he is famous so he is on there under a maid up name and he did go around telling all his friends, this is now me. i'm closing my facebook profile and turning it into a page. some people do that but the point is not to contradict myself but facebook is based around genuine identity. all the other services most notably myspace, really were all about role-playing, pseudonyms, handles and pretty much the internet until facebook came along was a place of primarily anonymity and pseudonyms and very few people use their real name and anything they did on the internet like on aol i was david 406 and there wasn't room in an e-mail address to use your full name. but it is interesting, i just realized lately i haven't used it until after i used -- wrote the book i always resisted this anonymity of the internet about if i'm going to be on their identifying myself there is no
i have one friend who is a famous novelist in new york. because he is famously can't really is facebook the way it is supposed to be used because he is always being bugged because he is famous so he is on there under a maid up name and he did go around telling all his friends, this is now me. i'm closing my facebook profile and turning it into a page. some people do that but the point is not to contradict myself but facebook is based around genuine identity. all the other services most notably...
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lowey of new york, for such time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.con.res 335, a concurrent resolution in remembrance and appreciation of ambassador richard holbrooke. the passing of ambassador holbrooke on monday, december 13 is a great loss american people. one of our nation's most talented diplomats, richard holbrooke possessed a fierce determination and unsurpassed brilliance in advocating for american security, diplomatic and development interests around the world in southeast asia, post-cold war europe, at the united nations and most recently in afghanistan and pakistan. his exceptional accomplishments as a peacemaker, diplomat, writer, scholar, manager mentor will define his legacy as one of the true great foreign policy giants of our time. i was honored and privileged to have known richard holbrooke from his time brokering the deyton peace accords, helping to end the ethnic cleansing and genocide in the balkans, his political
lowey of new york, for such time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.con.res 335, a concurrent resolution in remembrance and appreciation of ambassador richard holbrooke. the passing of ambassador holbrooke on monday, december 13 is a great loss american people. one of our nation's most talented diplomats, richard holbrooke possessed a fierce determination and unsurpassed brilliance in...
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today he is a student at the city university of new york school of law where he has a 3.8 g.p.a. he did an internship with the brooklyn district attorney's office. he is fluent in spanish, italian, french, and english, and he is mastering can ton ease and russian. he is a talented man. he has received lucrative offers to go to work for corporate law firms outside of the united states where his citizenship statistic will not be an issue but his dream to is stay in the united states and still enlist in the military as a member of the judge advocate general corps. without the dream act cesar vargas has no comans to enlist in the united states military and serve our nailings. this is david cho. david's parents brought him here from south korea ten years ago when he was nine years old. since thence a been a model american, 3.9 g.p.a. in high school. nigh now a senior at ucla where he is majoring with international finance with a g.p.a. of 3.6. he is the leader of the ucla marching band. might see him on television at half time. david wants to serve in the air force. if the dream act d
today he is a student at the city university of new york school of law where he has a 3.8 g.p.a. he did an internship with the brooklyn district attorney's office. he is fluent in spanish, italian, french, and english, and he is mastering can ton ease and russian. he is a talented man. he has received lucrative offers to go to work for corporate law firms outside of the united states where his citizenship statistic will not be an issue but his dream to is stay in the united states and still...
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rangel of new york. mr. jackson of illinois. ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. defazio of oregon. ms. woolsey of california. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. well, down the hall, we have the senate as they have been taking up the start streety to help limit our defense of ourselves with a country that is not the country we're most concerned about. we seem to keep ignoring the fact that iran continues to move forward developing nuclear weapons and once they have them , then that is the game changer. of course, we know that even in and it's nothing to fear if we act appropriately and don't stick our head in the sand as the treaty apparently attempts to do. for example, we've got people in the senate that do not understand that the president has the power to negotiate in advising and consenting, but they don't have the power to amend the treaty. our president. so they can make suggestions, but that language is not binding unless the other country agrees to it. so all this frivol
rangel of new york. mr. jackson of illinois. ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. defazio of oregon. ms. woolsey of california. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. well, down the hall, we have the senate as they have been taking up the start streety to help limit our defense of ourselves with a country that is not the country we're most concerned about. we seem to keep ignoring the fact that iran...
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we had a great celebration in new york. it was his legacy. i will say to ambassador holbrooke, to his spirit and to his legacy, you've left something behind that can help create peace, that can network across the ocean between the good will people of america and pakistani americans and those in pakistan who really want to focus in on building a great nation, maybe in the spirit of their founding father, dr. jenner who believed in a democratic prospect, living harmoniously in bangladesh, india, pakistan, afghanistan in that region. so i want us to support the concept of his legacy. just let me read some headlines that are reflective of his history. strong american voice in diplomacy in crisis. i can affirm that. vietnam, afghanistan, pakistan, all resulted out of crisis. but he was a man of diplomacy. statesman. who defined a generation. clearly, 50 years of service, there was no doubt that ambassador holbrooke's life will be considered an era, a time frame of american diplomacy and an approach of getting involved and getting to know the peopl
we had a great celebration in new york. it was his legacy. i will say to ambassador holbrooke, to his spirit and to his legacy, you've left something behind that can help create peace, that can network across the ocean between the good will people of america and pakistani americans and those in pakistan who really want to focus in on building a great nation, maybe in the spirit of their founding father, dr. jenner who believed in a democratic prospect, living harmoniously in bangladesh, india,...
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conyers: gregory meeks, new york. one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. meeks: who are we? we call ourselves american citizens. we're proud to be american. why are we proud to be americans? well, we were raised in american schools, we love our country, we studied our history, we wanted to prosper, we wanted to be able to do the things that cause us to be free. we care about children. what we're talking about here is a group of children who all they know is what we know. in fact, many of them have no idea that they were not american citizens. they grew up loving this country. they grew up aspiring for the same things that we have, that all of a sudden they find out that they can't continue with their education, that they can't go into the military. if we are truly americans, if we truly care about kids, if we truly stand for our core values we will tell those children because those children are as much american as each and every one of us. the speaker pro tempore: the ge
conyers: gregory meeks, new york. one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. meeks: who are we? we call ourselves american citizens. we're proud to be american. why are we proud to be americans? well, we were raised in american schools, we love our country, we studied our history, we wanted to prosper, we wanted to be able to do the things that cause us to be free. we care about children. what we're talking about here is a group of...
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do you wish to comment on "the new york times" claimed, based in southern wiki leak documents that iran has acquired 19 medium-range nuclear-capable missiles from north korea? according to these articles, they can reach berlin or moscow. the article also says that possession of these missiles can facilitate iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. and i should point out that that was treated skeptically today in today's "washington post," based on the post-interpretation of the same wikileaks documents. rather than take one or the other, what are your thoughts about -- >> just several quick comments. first and wikileaks in general, i think the reality is that the despicable breach of trust that we seem through the wikileaks disclosures has been substantial damage to our ability to carry out diplomatic efforts like the one that just described to you. confidentiality of conversations that the core of what we do with diplomats, just as it is for journalists or doctors or lawyers or others. and it has done damage. secretary clinton is literally working night and a conversa
do you wish to comment on "the new york times" claimed, based in southern wiki leak documents that iran has acquired 19 medium-range nuclear-capable missiles from north korea? according to these articles, they can reach berlin or moscow. the article also says that possession of these missiles can facilitate iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. and i should point out that that was treated skeptically today in today's "washington post," based on the...
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advertised in "the new york times." made in switzerland. now, maybe if it was made in america, you'd say, well, at least it's made in america. it's not made here. see, this is what the very rich spend their extra $100,000 on, things like that. doesn't help our economy. but what about the rest of america? what about those who don't shop at tiffany's? is this a good deal for the american people overall? well, mr. president, i have come to the conclusion it is not. at a time when our annual deficit is close to $1 trillion, much of it borrowed from china, at a time when the wealthy are already enjoying a huge surge in income, even as middle-class incomes are stagnant, it is simply obscene to give another lavish tax cut to the top 2%. let me say what should be painfully obvious about this new bonanza for the rich -- they don't need it and we can't afford it. they don't need it and we can't afford it. and it will not help the econo economy. in fact, in the longer term, i believe it will hurt our econo economy. these new tax breaks for the rich ar
advertised in "the new york times." made in switzerland. now, maybe if it was made in america, you'd say, well, at least it's made in america. it's not made here. see, this is what the very rich spend their extra $100,000 on, things like that. doesn't help our economy. but what about the rest of america? what about those who don't shop at tiffany's? is this a good deal for the american people overall? well, mr. president, i have come to the conclusion it is not. at a time when our...
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. >> the senator from new york. >> i to rise. i'll speak loosely in honor of my friend and our colleague, the senior senator from connecticut. and i watched him from the day i came here.se we knew each other little bit when i was in the house. the he left the house to go to the senate, but with many of thehoue same friends when i came to thet house. abilities. you know, for those of us who have served to your -- i've onls theno joys and difficulties of a legislating here in the senate. we know it'snd not easy but weth know how satisfying it is. there are very few who reach the acme of how to do it and who and would devote their to it. gue t and i guess they are given a ifs title -- i don't know if it's official. it's probably not-, but they are the men and women of the senate. we have had to leave us in thear last year. senator robert byrd and senator ted kennedy. there were truly men of theitle senate. and it's not a title bestowed easily or lightly or frequently. chris that is the name of the senate in the category of ted kenne
. >> the senator from new york. >> i to rise. i'll speak loosely in honor of my friend and our colleague, the senior senator from connecticut. and i watched him from the day i came here.se we knew each other little bit when i was in the house. the he left the house to go to the senate, but with many of thehoue same friends when i came to thet house. abilities. you know, for those of us who have served to your -- i've onls theno joys and difficulties of a legislating here in the...
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this is a tool that has been used successfully hundreds of times, most recently in the new york. the inability that we will have this measure was to pass is something that i think is on y s and puts the safety of the american people at risk. >> what else are you doing at this stage -- this intimate picked it up at any point. -- the senate may pick it up at any point. would you recommend that the president veto the legislation based on that provision alone? >> this is the statement that is contained in the letter that goes to the senators. it is administration statement. it is an indication that the president opposes that provision. in the strongest possible terms, on a very personal level, and as the person who knows these cases better than anybody, anybody. this legislation is unwise. it takes away from the justice department, from our investigative agencies, from the american people the ability to hold accountable people who have committed mass murder, people do intended to harm, kill american citizens. this is an extremely unwise piece of legislation. it is our hope that with
this is a tool that has been used successfully hundreds of times, most recently in the new york. the inability that we will have this measure was to pass is something that i think is on y s and puts the safety of the american people at risk. >> what else are you doing at this stage -- this intimate picked it up at any point. -- the senate may pick it up at any point. would you recommend that the president veto the legislation based on that provision alone? >> this is the statement...
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he was recruited away to the bid to be a partner in new york at a private equity firm and he became the ceo of one of his portfolio companies. he did that for a number of years. then he became the ceo of nextel and transformed the company. he then became the ceo of xo and served his fourth company. he then left that enjoined carlisle in 2003. when he left to become the ceo of general motors, i knew it was a daunting task. he did an extraordinary job. he was elected to the position on august 11 of this year and they have completed a historic i.p.o. -- the largest ipo in history. i doubt there is anyone u.s. singlehandedly put as much money in the coffers of the u.s. government as he did. as a result of that i.p.o., the u.s. government has been repaid $23 billion. i refer to him as our $23 billion man. he has shown his extraordinary skills as an executive and a ceo. i doubt that the i.p.o. could have been done unless he was there to shepherd it through. already, he has shown extraordinary skill and we are very pleased that both day and is here today and i think as a taxpayer, we are pleas
he was recruited away to the bid to be a partner in new york at a private equity firm and he became the ceo of one of his portfolio companies. he did that for a number of years. then he became the ceo of nextel and transformed the company. he then became the ceo of xo and served his fourth company. he then left that enjoined carlisle in 2003. when he left to become the ceo of general motors, i knew it was a daunting task. he did an extraordinary job. he was elected to the position on august 11...
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to my immediate left, david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for the new york times. he is a winner of two pulitzer prizes. we are delighted to have all of you here today. i want to start with the general. based on your study, what do you think we can expect in july of 2011? >> the president will probably give us a fair understanding of that letter this week. i do think we will see the beginnings of the first elements of transition next summer and afghanistan, bills will be very, very small movements. i think realistically, to get an understanding of whether the strategy in place now is going to work, we will not be able to have a good approximation of that until late summer next year. those troops did not close in afghanistan until about september of this year. with our seasonal fighting season, there is less combat activity in the wintertime. the spring and summer are the real fighting seasons there. we will need to wait a bit to determine whether those 30,000 troops have begun to have a significant effect are not. >> don't you think that by the next spring, we shou
to my immediate left, david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for the new york times. he is a winner of two pulitzer prizes. we are delighted to have all of you here today. i want to start with the general. based on your study, what do you think we can expect in july of 2011? >> the president will probably give us a fair understanding of that letter this week. i do think we will see the beginnings of the first elements of transition next summer and afghanistan, bills will be...
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"the new york times" editorial page does not permeate across all of america. neither does "the wall street journal" editorial page. most americans are trying to figure how to go about their lives and how can we make sure that our elected officials are looking out for us? that means because it's a big diverse country and people have a lot of come mr. -- complicated positions, we are going to compromise. that is why fdr, it only affected widows and orphans. you did not qualify. and yet now it is something that really helps a lot of people. when medicare was started, it was a small program. it grew. under the criteria that you just set out, each of those were betrayals of some abstract ideal. this country was founded on compromise. i couldn't go through the front door if this country founding. and if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn't have a union. so my job is to make sure that we have a north star out there. what is helping the american people live out their lives? you know, what is giving them more opportunity? what is growing the econo
"the new york times" editorial page does not permeate across all of america. neither does "the wall street journal" editorial page. most americans are trying to figure how to go about their lives and how can we make sure that our elected officials are looking out for us? that means because it's a big diverse country and people have a lot of come mr. -- complicated positions, we are going to compromise. that is why fdr, it only affected widows and orphans. you did not...
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. >> let me talk to you about -- there you are at the new york times and this comes to you. what happened after that? how did you make a decision to accept it and what did you do with it after you got it? what happened to when we saw it? >> there were three batches of documents. "the *" got from wikileaks. the first to directly and the third. the founder had taken offense at a profile we had published of him. he did not want to give us the third group of documents which was the state department cables. the guardian which had sort of agreed along with us in "der spiegel" agreed. we had cables and you refer to them as highly classified. nothing was classified higher than that. and a lot of it is unclassified and a lot is confidential. from the state department policy point of view, they did not want [unintelligible] is an almost impossible amount of stuff to go through. and so we created a search engine that you could limit by time, by the embassy from which the cable was sent, by the classification level and other criteria. we started doing searches. you try to think of keywo
. >> let me talk to you about -- there you are at the new york times and this comes to you. what happened after that? how did you make a decision to accept it and what did you do with it after you got it? what happened to when we saw it? >> there were three batches of documents. "the *" got from wikileaks. the first to directly and the third. the founder had taken offense at a profile we had published of him. he did not want to give us the third group of documents which...
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york, pieces of the pentagon. i do not want to downplay in any way, shape or form the tragic losses as a result of terrorism. but that doesn't mean that the threat is existential. there are things that do have such repercussions that we must do everything we can to stop them, in particular, terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction. finally, i will not dwell on this because i would like to keep my job. we should not assume that either party has all of the answers before stopping terrorist attacks. in my view, again, having served in the republican administration and now serving a democratic administration, both parties, the leaders of both parties, the members of both parties have good ideas and we should not assume that one party or the other knows exactly what should be done. now, in my relative closing, i want to focus on something that has become more common refrain among some commentators. that is that the reason we stop these attacks is that we have been lucky. frankly, there is some truth to that. it
york, pieces of the pentagon. i do not want to downplay in any way, shape or form the tragic losses as a result of terrorism. but that doesn't mean that the threat is existential. there are things that do have such repercussions that we must do everything we can to stop them, in particular, terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction. finally, i will not dwell on this because i would like to keep my job. we should not assume that either party has all of the answers before stopping terrorist...
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york. i don't have a hat like that, or a t-shirt like that. [laughter] but you will represent many different regions, areas of expertise and positions and the agriculture supply chain. and you represent nearly every
york. i don't have a hat like that, or a t-shirt like that. [laughter] but you will represent many different regions, areas of expertise and positions and the agriculture supply chain. and you represent nearly every